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    Sign-Ups For Google Fiber Begin In Austin

    Woot-Woot! I am in the planned area for Austin.
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    Report: AMD R9 290X Coming in 8 GB Variants

    It would be nice to see benchmark scores include the vram usage.
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    Xotic PC Partners With Asus ROG On Exclusive 'REAPER' Custom Gaming PC

    You are not factoring in the 1 year warranty in your cost difference.
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    Is The Game Industry Dropping The 60 FPS Standard?

    You can look at the Steam hardware statistics and a large majority of gamers do not own GPUs capable of running 60 FPS/60Hz games on Ultra settings. The problem overclockers and enthusiast will always confront is the fact they are a low demand customer segment. I say 'low demand' because the...
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    Mushkin Essentials DDR4 Memory Will Do The Job (Without Style Points)

    Thanks for the laugh, buddy. "...only to get sucked into all the various fans!" You know the NASCAR rigged-out uber machine will have a dozen fans to cool a single hard drive too. Oh the horror!
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    Maingear Special Edition Battlebox Starts at $2,999

    The Titan Z sells for $2998 on Newegg. Maingear must be getting those Z cards at a great price considering the other components cost $400+ retail.
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    Origin PC Goes Mad With Discounts on Titan-Z Systems

    Or they are professionals and their technical needs are significantly different and more demanding than gamers/enthusiasts. Maybe the Titan-Z is over-priced, but a $3000 Quadro/Firepro is not over-priced. But, I get your point....a $3000 GPU for gaming, or bragging rights, is somewhat a little...
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    Gigabyte Shows Off An X99 Motherboard, Too

    Intel needs to open up the partner NDAs on x99 for this release. AMD has no competitive product to worry about. No need to keep the technical specifications under wraps and prevent MB partners from leaking specifics. At this point, the first boards coming to market are already finalized for...
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    AMD Mantle: A Graphics API Tested In Depth

    Thanks for your response. I understand every game is different. Let me provide another example. When Unreal Tournament 3 released, my PC could not run the Single Player Campaign, but the Multiplyer worked fine. Visually, it appeared the Single Player mode had all the stunning graphics, but...
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    AMD Mantle: A Graphics API Tested In Depth

    Is there a significant difference between the development and performance of the game in Campaign(single player) versus Multiplayer? I see a lot of synthetic benchmarks that appear to be using the graphics/textures of the single player game and not the multiplayer. I pose this question because...
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    AMD APUs to Become Efficient Faster Than Moore's Law

    Dear AMD, Call me when you embed a 295x2 on-die with the CPU. IN-TEL then, we are still trying to make Bulldozer run uphill. Sincerely, Gordon E. Moore, co-founder of Intel Corporation
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    Report: What to Expect From Intel 9-Series Chipsets

    Keep in mind these chipsets are centered around business solutions and mainstream consumer use. The number of motherboards sold worldwide for commercial/mainstream use EXTREMELY outweighs gaming PC sales.
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    Commodore Founder Jack Tramiel Dies at 83

    RIP I will fire up my C64 in tribute.